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For example; let's say someone with a lot of followers on twitter shares one post a day from other users, but never posts on Hive; is it valid?

Yes that is what we want, traffic to our front-ends.

Though if he doesn't have a Hive account connected to hiveposh.com with his twitter the tokens will just get burned instead even if he uses the #hive tag so the bot picks it up.